PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say they've arrested a man who killed his wife with an ax, then called sheriff's deputies to report his crime.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy Keith Ho says when deputies responded to the home in unincorporated East Pasadena early Sunday
they found the man's wife with multiple stab wounds. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Los Angeles County coroner's office identified the victim as 55-year-old Michelle Lu.

Her husband's name has not been released.